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Larissa Waters
Greens Leader & Senator for Qld

Gambling donations a stain on our democracy, but Liberals, Nationals and Labor happy to keep cashing in

14 October, 2021 - Forensic research by the ABC has shed new light on just how important a ban on political donations from the gambiling industry is. The ABC’s ...

Another day, another rort: Greens to push for vote on their National Integrity Commission bill

13 October, 2021 - The Green says revelations that community grants from the Building Better Regions Fund were disproportionately awarded to Coalition seats onc...

Greens’ integrity body scores top marks; PM’s model “weakest in country”

6 October, 2021 - The Greens’ model for a National Integrity Commission, which passed the Senate two years ago, has been given top marks by The Centre for Publi...

Greens to force debate on National Integrity Commission Bill

5 October, 2021 - In the wake of the NSW ICAC investigating former Premier Gladys Berejiklian, the Greens will move a concurrence motion in the next parliamenta...

PM’s COAG bill a slippery slope to increased executive power

27 September, 2021 - The Greens say evidence presented at today’s inquiry into the government’s COAG Legislation Amendment Bill shows just how far the PM has st...

Porter's got to go

16 September, 2021 - The Greens say the Prime Minister should dump Christian Porter from his Ministry, and that the so-called "investigation" into whether the s...

Secret Porter donor makes a mockery of donations laws

14 September, 2021 - The Greens say Christian Porter’s refusal to reveal who partially funded his defamation case against the ABC is the latest chapter in a sor...

1000 days waiting for a federal ICAC

8 September, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the government for its thousand day failure to introduce a federal corruption watchdog, saying that the four-digit d...

1000 days waiting for a Federal ICAC: Time's up

8 September, 2021 - If we had a strong corruption watchdog, Morrison and half his Cabinet might find themselves looking for new jobs. By Larissa Waters ...

PM’s Women’s Safety Summit just more political theatre

6 September, 2021 - The Greens say day one of the Women’s Safety Summit was yet another exercise in political theatre for a government that remains completely o...

PM dodging accountability with new national cabinet secrecy laws

2 September, 2021 - The PM continues to do all he can to duck transparency and accountability with new laws that would overturn a recent court decision by shiel...

Government and One Nation leave women unsafe by blocking amendments

1 September, 2021 - The government and One Nation have blocked crucial amendments from the Greens and Labor that would have implemented the centrepiece of the R...